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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mitra, it’s your birthday. Happy birthday, Mitra!

  

  pictures of her, so I do not know how I managed to get this one. I thought it was because she is really a vampire and does not show up on film, but ... . Happy birthday, Mitra! Don't eat too much cake; you have got a marathon to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 4, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  How does pass/no record work?

  is graded on a pass/no record basis: if you pass the class you get a ... second semester is similar, except that if you pass, you get a letter grade of A/B/C. As part of the flexible pass/no record grading option, you
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Legit Black Holes, Bandaids, and Nobel Prizes

  

  Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of ... yesterday titled, "How to Win a Nobel Prize" - hands down, it was my favorite ... decisions come out!! How are you guys holding up? The wait is almost over! I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus ... follows the same schedule, here is a look back on last Friday. 8:37 - My ... cooking for myself this month. I bought a lot of soup. A tad too much most

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Sunday Everyone Go read Marilee's post... NOW.

  

  'm excited for everyone to get their mail this week!" post. In my in-box was ... have done so, and have decided not to do a post of my own, because you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  friends highly recommend it. of a different taste is existential dread, like ... branches of our repository. the idea of a branch is that you can develop it ... real." a bowl is a bowl is a bowl. in the song branches, the chorus isn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  is a little scary since I don't have much time now. But maybe that just ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a ... is intense this semester (most course 2 peeps I've told give me a crazy

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  started the pset at 9:30p.m. What follows, friends is what is known as a rude awakening. 18.01 is much harder than BC Calc. Much much harder in ... ) What I was expecting: Chris, what is the derivative of x^2? How about x^3

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  make a difference in terms of culture and accessibility. 2. "How hard IS ... . But how do you get a UROP?  A good first step is to look at the UROP ... colleges, but culture is really a tangible thing that you can compare. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  than one, so coming to a city with a Subway system like this is like heaven. And the fact is that a lot of times, you don't even need the Subway ... consider how important location is to you, and possibly how important it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  . This is how much fun Ling '07 and Bao '07 found all that action. You could see how much fun I found it, but those pictures will remain unseen ... , under a few bridges, which is harrowing in itself, and into a romantic

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  to move a little bit. You would use computers to decide how much to ... find interesting. Part of it is in how we explain things, like using too ... part of it is in how we talk -- being excited when you talk, speaking

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... gonna lie. Anyway, admission is 8 €, and I'm not sure how Jesus would ... , but because this is an MIT blog and there is a magic square in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... off for thanksgiving). And one of those is just a rando ... . My biological clock is underdamped with a stupidly high Q. Looks like

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  , highlighter, or anything else. A good deal of the surface area here is made of ... else. I hope this a reminder that, even when your nose is to the ... 've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... of Battle of the Bands isn't doing much for charity–it is! Half of the ... ). Plus, I heard a certain Tim Beaver is planning on being there to get his

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  ? is it? but a second, more skeptic thought going, it can’t be, it can’t be.   eventually, he goes it is a tungsten cube and i turn around and ... the W-cube. there is not much to get out of this story, i just like

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  amazed at just how much of a difference that kind of commitment makes ... being the inverse of how much work you do on weekends. Frankly, some of ... lecture, never skipped a problem set. Failing here and there is ok, when you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  . I'll have time to watch TV. This is a big deal, guys. Be excited for ... is unfortunately what we happen to be learning about in my 5.112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  MIT, how time flies!) I did a game design class, early solar system ... , the class is about making games using a framework called Love. One of ... year is called Bullet Helloween (There will be a link here to the source

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018